Questions tagged [hidden-files]

also refereed to as dot-files and/or [.]files

Show Hidden Files option, accessible via folder-menubar -> View (see screenshot below) and/or Ctrl+H key-shortcut, also via terminal-commands:

Example:

tree -a                                                           

[.]files - folder/directory
├── folder
├── .[hidden]folder
├── .[hidden]textfile
└── textfile

The -a flag plots out all [.]files while used and can be combined with other flags as well. See: -la (screenshot below)


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Show hidden .htaccess files by default

I was wondering if there is some method to display .htaccess files by default in every folder i create it. Is it possible to exclude .htaccess files from the hidden files? Maybe from the terminal
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Why are there files ending with ~ on my system?

Ive got Ubuntu desktop up and running on my N54L microserver. I've noticed however that if I'm looking at a folder on the microserver from my Windows 7 laptop, if I make a change to a file on Ubuntu and save the file, on Windows it creates a copy…
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Files disappearing in Ubuntu

I have a lot of music in my hard drive and some times they disappear. In my previous Ubuntu installation, this was happening very much. I did I fresh install a few days ago (not because of this) and now this returned: I noticed that in Rhythmbox a…
Cosmo
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